To prevent unintentional data leakage, whenever a process exits, the operating system must zero the memory that had been allocated to the existing process. The procedure to zero a contiguous block of memory is a form of: (select the correct answer) i. Asynchronous Procedure Call ii. iii. Fork-Join Parallelism Synchronous Procedure Call iv. Thread Abstraction

To prevent unintentional data leakage, whenever a process exits, the operating system must zero the memory that had been allocated to the existing process. The procedure to zero a contiguous block of memory is a form of: (select the correct answer) i. Asynchronous Procedure Call ii. iii. Fork-Join Parallelism Synchronous Procedure Call iv. Thread Abstraction

Systems Architecture

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Chapter11: Operating Systems

Section: Chapter Questions

Problem 11VE

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